Bosnian Mujahideen

The Bosnian Mujahideen was a unit of 300-6,000 foreign Muslim volunteers who fought in the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995 against FR Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska.

History
The Bosnian Mujahideen were founded in 1992 of 300-6,000 Muslims who left their home countries to participate in humanitarian work or fighting for Islam on behalf of their fellow Muslim Bosniaks, who were purged in ethnic cleansing by FR Yugoslavia during the Bosnian War. The Muslim volunteers fought in the second war fought by foreign fighters, the first being the Soviet-Afghan War - the Bosnian War took place at the same time as the Afghan Civil War. The Bosnian Mujahideen were required to leave the Balkans in the 1995 Dayton Accords, but around 200 remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the war, the Bosnian Mujahideen were a source of controversy. Only a few were tried for war crimes carried out during the Yugoslav Wars, and in 2001, the United States was shocked to find out that two of the 19 9/11 terrorist attack hijackers were veterans of Bosnia and members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Around 1,000 Mujahideen fighters belonged to al-Qaeda, and most headed to Afghanistan after the war. Had the Dayton Accords not taken place, journalist Jim Lehrer says that the USA might have fought the terrorists deep in the ravines and the caves of Central Bosnia in the heart of Europe.